The Blackwell Companion to Criminology [[electronic resource]]
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| Autore: |
Sumner Colin
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| Titolo: |
The Blackwell Companion to Criminology [[electronic resource]]
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| Pubblicazione: | Hoboken, : Wiley, 2008 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (538 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 364 |
| Soggetto topico: | Criminology |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di contenuto: | The blackwell Companion to Criminology; Contents; Preface; List of Contributors; PART I CRIME, JUSTICE, AND SOCIETIES; 1 The Social Nature of Crime and Deviance; 2 Theories of Social Control and the State between American and European Shores; 3 Criminal Justice Process and War on Crime; 4 Criminology, Genocide, and Modernity: Remarks on the Companion that Criminology Ignored; PART II JUVENILE DELINQUENCY AND JUSTICE; 5 The Criminologists' Gang; 6 Youth Crime and Crime Control in Contemporary Japan; 7 Consumer Culture and Crime in Late Modernity |
| 8 The Politics of Youth Crime and Justice in South AfricaPART III PUNISHMENT AND ITS ALTERNATIVES; 9 Penal Policies and Contemporary Politics; 10 Beyond Bricks, Bars, and Barbed Wire: The Genesis and Proliferation of Alternatives to Incarceration in the United States; 11 Rehabilitation: An Assessment of Theory and Research; 12 Female Punishment: From Patriarchy to Backlash?; PART IV GENDER AND THE MASCULINITY OF CRIME; 13 Beyond Bad Girls: Feminist Perspectives on Female Offending; 14 Managing ""Men's Violence"" in the Criminological Arena | |
| 15 Masculinities and Crime: Rethinking the ""Man Question""?16 ""Abominable and Detestable"": Understanding Homophobia and the Criminalization of Sodomy; 17 The Gendering and Racializing of Criminalized Others; PART V CAPITAL, POWER, AND CRIME; 18 White-Collar Crime; 19 ""Dance Your Anger and Your Joys"": Multinational Corporations, Power, ""Crime""; 20 Globalization and the Illicit Drugs Trade in Hong Kong; 21 Trafficking in Human Beings and Related Crimes in West and Central Africa; PART VI GLOBALIZATION, CRIME, AND INFORMATION | |
| 22 Globality, Glocalization, and Private Policing: A Caribbean Case Study23 The Rise of the Surveillant State in Times of Globalization; 24 The Politics of Crime Statistics; 25 Two Realities of Police Communication; 26 Hacktivism - Resistance is Fertile?; Index | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | The Blackwell Companion to Criminology provides a contemporary and global resource to scholarship in both classical and topical areas of criminology. Written accessibly, and with its international perspective and first-rate scholarship, this is truly the first global handbook of criminology. Editors and contributors are international experts in criminology, offering a comparative perspective on theories and systemsContains full discussion of key debates and theories, the implications of new topics, studies and ideas, and contemporary developmentsCoverage |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The Blackwell Companion to Criminology |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910462173803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Blackwell companions to sociology